CodePush android did not update, iOS crashes after release

[vdlindenmark]

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Steps to Reproduce

1. Followed the steps to setup codePush. Have made sure the keys are correct codepush staging and release keys.
2. Running staging build on both an iOS simulator and an Android device
3. Uploaded a codepush update for each platform
4. Can see the update on AppCenter -> CodePush -> Staging
5. Restarted staging apps multiple times but apps didn't receive updates. In AppCenter it shows null installs too.

Expected Behavior

What you expected to happen?
Apps should update after restart without a crash

Actual Behavior

What actually happens?
Nothing happens on Android, iOS crashed after restarting the app.

Reproducible Demo

• Download https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-code-push/archive/master.zip and unzip. From Examples folder run node create-app.js appName react-native@0.47.1 react-native-code-push@5.0.0-beta command to generate plain CodePushified React Native app. Please see description on top of create-app.js file content if needed
• If you can't reproduce the bug on it, provide us as much info as possible about your project

Environment

• react-native-code-push version: 5.2.2
• react-native version: 0.54.0
• iOS/Android/Windows version: iOS: 11.2.6 Android: i.d.k.
• Does this reproduce on a debug build or release build? both
• Does this reproduce on a simulator, or only on a physical device? simulators.

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[temitope]

@vdlindenmark happens for me only when I run the release. I am on React Native 0.51 and it only happens in ios. I had it in my Podfile and package.json files. I confirmed it by removing all references to the Codepush libs and everything worked.

I was using 5.0+ but wll be testing on 4.0+

[temitope]

Success. I realized that I had upgraded my react-native to a new version since my last push of a release via CodePush (which was mandatory and possibly from a different version of react-native). This was causing the crash it seems.

It worked once I re-pushed the latest version of my code to CodePush servers (without the mandatory -m flag, and it worked. Makes sense kind of. I wish it would have simply failed more gracefully if possible. Double checking results now. Confirmed.

This perhaps explains why it was only happening on Release, rather than Debug. Pernicious bug that took me almost a week to find the culprit and now a few hours for the solution...Which had nothing to do with the actual code i wrote directly🤦‍♂️

[temitope]

Note: I found that it also helped that I removed index.ios.js and index.android.js entirely from my root folder. I also removed Codepush from my Podfile and relegated it to package.json only. Wishing anyon else ending up here look in closing the issue.

[itoys]

Hi guys, sorry for delay!
Could you please provide some additional info how do you use codepush:

1. How did you install plugin?
2. What codepush options do you use?
3. You run sync manually or just wrap root component?
   Would be great if you can create a simple app that I could repeat the error

[gonzaloreciog]

@temitope wow thanks! same problem happened to us but we didn't realise that was the issue until we read your comment 🤦‍♂️ , thanks!!

[edritech93]

any update ?